Stop street racing and take it to the track! Ohh, you closed all the tracks, well take it somewhere you can use for cheap! Ohh, the government is making it harder to run events like that? Well then, stop liking things that busybody soccer moms don't like!

Autocross type events on airports are the best. Lots of room for the course, usually a good, clean, grippy surface. Sucks that the Feds are making this a pain in the ass. If the club pays to rent the space it can be a source of revenue for a small airport.

I don't know that I'd blame the airport authority too much for this... I suspect the feds are holding funding over their head that's needed for the renovations, or perhaps even to keep the airport open.

Yeah, we've race with the ECTA (East Coast Timing Association) at the airfield in Wilmington, Ohio several times. Airstrips are great for this sort of stuff and the local communities love the business it brings. Fark them!

I was hoping to run that damned auto-x series next summer, now that I'm finally finished with my degree. Damn it. Hopefully they keep the Polish Mountain Hillclimb going, at least. May have to find another auto-x series.

Old Bridge airport in New Jersey has a drag strip adjacent to it. It's not quite connected to and nearly parallel to the North end of the single runway. Every so often, you'd hear an aircraft go-round when its pilot realized he had lined up with the drag strip and not the runway. I never heard of anyone landing on the drag strip though. The bleachers were probably enough to wave off anyone getting close.

DjangoStonereaver:moike: Nothing unusual... Lots of club level racing orgs. rent time on airports to host events.

You do know that Top Gear's 'secret test track' is actually on an airport runway/taxiway right?

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Its much more common in England, I think, because of the sheer number of WWII-era airfields they haveover there.

Yeah, quite a bit in England. On top of the already extensive list of high end purpose-built roadracing facilities already in the UK. You can't swing a cat without hitting a really nice race track... Very jealous of my UK racing friends. They get to do stuff like hit the jump at Caldwell Park.

KierzanDax:Holtville NAAS (Holtville, CA) used to have car racing in the 80s. My parents worked on the medical team for the events.

HOLY shiat!! My dad was president of the IV Timing Assoc and "track manager" of Holtville from 1975 to about 1979...I used to work the time slip booth when I was 8 - 10 years old. Small farking world...

tillerman35:Old Bridge airport in New Jersey has a drag strip adjacent to it. It's not quite connected to and nearly parallel to the North end of the single runway. Every so often, you'd hear an aircraft go-round when its pilot realized he had lined up with the drag strip and not the runway. I never heard of anyone landing on the drag strip though. The bleachers were probably enough to wave off anyone getting close.